Posts tagged "underpayments"

Wage theft is costing Australian workers $850 million a year, according to a damning new report from the McKell Institute.

Coles and Woolworths are set to face a seven-week-long Federal Court case over employee underpayments after a judge ordered that four separate cases could be heard as one.

A problem has arisen in NAB’s attempts to repay thousands of current and former staff who are owed money due to underpayments.

Small businesses that underpay workers could be hit with 50% higher civil penalties, under the federal government’s industrial relations reform bill.

Tens of thousands of businesses have confessed to underpaying superannuation and committed to backpaying employees.

The Vic government’s decision to introduce a ‘wage watchdog’, in addition to the existing Fair Work Ombudsman, is poorly-timed.

Businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can expect a proportionate and flexible approach from the wage theft watchdog.

The Fair Work Ombudsman's four-year battle over wage theft at a Queensland mushroom farm has come to an anti-climactic end, with a labour hire company fined $22,440.

Australian employers too often think about workplace culture only in relation to full-time employees. It's time to consider shift workers as well.

New wage theft scandals are unlikely to be the last, as corporate Australia reckons with one of the worst worker exploitation scandals in recent memory.

Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.

A Melbourne small business will pay a hefty fine to a teenage worker after stealing thousands of dollars in wages and superannuation.